Elon Musk Hires AI Researchers to Develop ChatGPT Rival

Tesla and Twitter Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has reportedly recruited AI researchers for the past few weeks as he forms a new research lab. This is an effort to develop an alternative to Open AI's ChatGPT.

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Developing ChatGPT's Rival

Artificial Intelligence researchers were approached by Chief Tweet Elon Musk, as per The Information, as he formed a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT in an effort to compete with OpenAI.

Approached researchers include Google Researcher Igor Babuschkin. He recently left Alphabet's DeepMind AI unit. He specializes in the kind of machine-learning models that power chatbots like ChatGPT.

They have discussed assembling a team to pursue AI research in order to develop a competitor in the AI market despite his existential anxiety towards this. But Babuschkin stated that he has not still officially signed to this initiative, as the project is still in the early stages with no concrete plans to develop specific products.

Reuters reported that this comes after ChatGPT became popular and gained widespread attention in Silicon Valley. Musk co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit startup along with Sam Altman in 2015 before leaving the board in 2018.

Last December, he replied to a tweet from Altman that stated how ChatGPT receives many takes and how it will go much further in the future. Musk said, "ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI."

Elon Musk's Take on AI

Based on his statements from Twitter, he is feeling a bit of existential anxiety with Artificial Intelligence, but all things considered about AGI existential angst. He excitedly said that he wants to witness AGI's growth.

But when asked about ChatGPT, Musk noted that it is promising with both positive and negative effects when it comes to great danger, especially since AI has advanced. Business Insider reported that AI regulation is necessary for Musk even if it slows down their progress.

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Just last week, Musk warned about ChatGPT and the use of AI models as he claimed it to be the biggest threat to humanity. He stated during the World Government Summit in Dubai, "It is, I think, actually a bigger risk to society than cars or planes or medicine," Additionally, he also insinuated in the past that AI could take over the world.

Musk compared AI's danger to nuclear weapons in 2018. A year before that, he also emphasized the need for AI regulation, stating that people would not know how to react to this kind of technology that he describes as "ethereal."